Rise of the Rentier / Themes

Spaces and Things

Investigating how the spaces, sites, and materiality of financial practices mattered to how ordinary people encountered and navigated investment and speculation.  

Stuff

Space and territory

Sites of business

People

Working to broaden our understanding of agents in global financial markets.

Women and finance

Brokers

Investors

Institutions

Focusing on the public and private bodies engaged in building, policing, and maintaining financial markets. 

Police

Politics and Scandal

The University of Manchester